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[...] Troy City Officials Wield Building Code to Shut Down Game Art Exhibit [...]Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:21:31 +0000blog.bsing.net &raquo; Game Politicscomment 104582 at http://gamepolitics.comhttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/03/12/troy-city-officials-wield-building-code-shut-down-game-art-exhibit#comment-104581
[...] gamepolitics.com catches quickly on to the fact that a City official might be improperly wielding his bestowed authorities: Troy City Officials Wield Building Code to Shut Down Game Art Exhibit [...]Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:10:14 +0000dicianno.org/blog :: Censorship of American-Iraqi artist incomment 104581 at http://gamepolitics.comhttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/03/12/troy-city-officials-wield-building-code-shut-down-game-art-exhibit#comment-104580
Hehe, at least Q gave the illustion of free choice. <br />
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And Americans arent afriad of terrorism till a politican goes "Terrism MAY hit us!" Till then no one gives a care. Politicans bring it up when ever someone says "We need to fix America's problems!"Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:16:30 +0000Ebonheartcomment 104580 at http://gamepolitics.comhttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/03/12/troy-city-officials-wield-building-code-shut-down-game-art-exhibit#comment-104579
Hehe I thought it was rather appropriate. Quite a coincidence that I happened to be watching that episode and reading GP at the same time. <br />
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Well unless Q was involved I guess...Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:55:43 +0000Aliasalphacomment 104579 at http://gamepolitics.comhttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/03/12/troy-city-officials-wield-building-code-shut-down-game-art-exhibit#comment-104578
A terrible breach of personal liberties, a supposedly illegal social injustice swept under the proverbial rug, a frightening blow to freedom and democracy, all summed up with an obscure Star Trek quote.<br />
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I love geeks. We're awesome.Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:27:34 +0000Joel Atkinsoncomment 104578 at http://gamepolitics.comhttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/03/12/troy-city-officials-wield-building-code-shut-down-game-art-exhibit#comment-104577
I can't help but see parallels in the Star Trek episode I'm watching<br />
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<i>With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.<br />
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The Drumhead</i><br />
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A pathetic and petty link, this man's actions, but its still a link.Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:29:26 +0000Aliasalphacomment 104577 at http://gamepolitics.comhttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/03/12/troy-city-officials-wield-building-code-shut-down-game-art-exhibit#comment-104576
It's funny (well ... not really) that people call the US the Land of the Free. I'm sure once upon a time, it used to be.<br />
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Now, it's become so scared of terrorism that the terrorists have won. The ultra-conservative "powers that be" have inch-by inch intruded so far on your civil liberties, that you'll soon be just another fascist state.<br />
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The Thought Police are waiting for you.Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:58:44 +0000Michaelcomment 104576 at http://gamepolitics.comhttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/03/12/troy-city-officials-wield-building-code-shut-down-game-art-exhibit#comment-104575
He could always show it in Buffalo. God knows we need some time in the spot light.Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:25:32 +0000JJMUGcomment 104575 at http://gamepolitics.comhttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/03/12/troy-city-officials-wield-building-code-shut-down-game-art-exhibit#comment-104574
Regardless of how anybody feels about a demonstration that is nonviolent and does not call for anything threatening to the U.S. security, stopping it for political reasons is wrong. As in, unconstitutional.<br />
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And we might as well be IN "1984" if a computer depiction of opinions differing from those of a government that has violated so many liberties and international laws is politically strong-armed to be banished while torture both unlawful and useless on top of violating human rights continues on its merry way.<br />
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For those who will argue that torture isn't useless, you're disproven by every historical and current study on torture, all of which reveal that the information derived (from those overzealous extraction methods that would be perceived as torture by anyone receiving them) is almost entirely unreliable and consistently costs lives when acted upon.<br />
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Which we've known for decades, but why would the president listen to the experts on interrogation when he could just fearmonger instead, and use the tactics of an organization that has never studied torture's effects because it doesn't have lives hanging on the information it receives (CIA)?<br />
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Perhaps for the same reason politicians in this government abuse their authority to illegally stop the sharing of an opinion they find threatening but which actually neither poses nor encourages any harm to national security.<br />
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Too bad "for the sake of national security" can't be Godwin's Law-ified.Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:33:31 +0000Coravincomment 104574 at http://gamepolitics.comhttp://gamepolitics.com/2008/03/12/troy-city-officials-wield-building-code-shut-down-game-art-exhibit#comment-104573
When the exhibit was removed from RPI, I accepted that action as within the rights of a private institution. There was nothing wrong with that, other maybe than a sad statement on the unwillingness to let people judge the video game for themselves.<br />
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However, the government abusing its power to shut down the exhibit at the Art Gallery is totally unacceptable. If they weren't willing to enforce building code violations before the exhibit, then they were only using them as an excuse to censor Bilal.<br />
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The two incidents are completely different. When a private institution refuses to host something, it's their freedom of expression (or their freedom not to express). When the government shuts down something because they don't like it, then it is censorship.Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:39:46 +0000Are'elcomment 104573 at http://gamepolitics.com